The Economics Of Federal Defense Policy
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Three out of four Americans polled in the 1992 election year believed that the
United States was heading in the wrong direction. With such an overwhelming
consensus, the country hired a new president to attempt to fix the vital issues
at hand. Although both Republicans and Democrats believed that ....
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.... preceding nations that have lower infant mortality rates.
Among the twenty most developed countries in the world, the United States has
the highest divorce rate and the highest teen pregnancy rate. The most
incredulous fact of all is that the Pentagon continues to absorb twenty percent
of the federal budget-over a third of which is spent protecting Europe against
an enemy that no longer exists.
In fact, that is the most probable source of America's problems: the budget.
Forty-seven per ....
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